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Youth Mobility, Boundary and Border Crossing in Language and Literacy Research
Wed, November 30, 10:30am to 12:00pm, Omni Nashville, Floor: Level 2, Broadway Ballroom ASession Submission Type: Symposium
Abstract
Authors of this symposium take up the conference theme by examining the dexterity of youths’ language and literacy practices in varied secondary schooling contexts in urban Arizona, California, and New York schools and classrooms. Drawing on diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives, the following papers centralize youth of color as agential in their development of powerful language and literacy practices that can transform what counts as language and literacy in reductive schooling contexts.
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Moving beyond essentialist, purist, and prescriptivist understandings of Chican@ and Latin@ students’ linguistic repertoires - Ramon Martinez, Stanford University; Danny Martinez, University of California, Davis
Engaging Multiple Literacies and Identities in the context of Youth Participatory Action Research - Jamila J. Lyiscott, Teachers College, Columbia University; Limarys Caraballo, Queens College of the City University of New York
Exploring Latin@ Immigrant Youth’s Racial and Civic Literacies through Photovoice Projects - Cati de los Rios, Teachers College, Columbia University
Critical Listening and Storying: Fostering Respect for Difference and Action Within and Beyond a Native American Literature Classroom - Timothy San Pedro, The Ohio State University